On top of all this, the swaddle is super-easy to use. Our tester was a big fan of the zip-up fastening, as it was easy to get to just the right tightness (which isn’t always the case with the traditional blanket-style swaddles).
Love to Dream goes above and beyond in this aspect, with a double-sided zipper allowing you to change your baby’s nappy without removing the swaddle as a whole – pretty helpful if you ask us, particularly during our ‘night-time test’. It made those tricky and bleary-eyed middle-of-the-night changes so much easier, with our mini-tester not even waking when we tested it out. Perhaps sleep-hazed re-swaddling really could be be a thing of the past.
We would say this may be a product better suited to younger babies who haven’t been used to tight swaddling, as it’s certainly a bit roomier than other options. When our tester tried it out with her older child he found it a little too loose, and some pesky fingers even poked out of the hole in the top, because he'd been used to a much tighter swaddle from day one.
To be honest, we think he probably just wasn't as used to sleeping in the arms-up position, which is where this product really comes into its own. It gives babies the benefit of staying in this cactus-like pose if they're used to it, but also allows them to feel more cocooned than if they weren't swaddled at all.